Education: Have Another Party

Only ten years had passed since the University of Louisville celebrated
its first 100 years with three months of banquets and festivities. The
university had modestly dated its beginning from 1837, when the
citizens of Louisville decided to build the first municipal university
in the U.S. Last week, however, President John W. Taylor announced a
new calculation: the university, he declared, was actually founded 39
years earlier, in 1798, when Jefferson Seminary, its "parent
institution," was chartered. Accordingly, he ordered a new round of
festivities for next year, to celebrate Louisville U's 150th.